GTA 6 Locations Spotted: Every Named District, County and Region

This breakdown maps every named or visually identifiable location across both Grand Theft Auto VI trailers — the December 2023 reveal (Trailer 1) and the May 2025 follow-up (Trailer 2). The scope is deliberately conservative: only places named on-screen, named in Rockstar’s published copy, or made unambiguous by overhead signage are treated as confirmed. Community map-builders have inferred far more, and we surface their best-supported additions in a separate section so the line between “shown” and “triangulated” stays clean.

The state of Leonida, at a glance

Rockstar’s stated setting is Leonida, a fictional U.S. state modelled after Florida, with Vice City as its dominant urban centre. Trailer 1 spent most of its 90 seconds inside Vice City; Trailer 2 used its longer 2:47 runtime to push outward — through the Keys, the swamp interior, and a string of newly named counties and towns to the north.

Jetro’s “100+ Hidden Details” video paraphrases the marketing copy at 0:26 as describing a setting that “stretches across the state of Leonida,” which matches Rockstar’s own framing on the official VI page. That outward-facing posture is why this article is organised by region, not by trailer.

Region	Status	First on-screen	Real-world analogue
Vice City (metro)	Named on signage and in marketing	Trailer 1, 0:00	Miami
Leonida Keys	Named in Rockstar copy + signage	Trailer 1, 0:35	Florida Keys
Port Gellhorn	Named in Trailer 2 marketing & signage	Trailer 2	Florida Panhandle port towns
Mount Kalaga	Named in Trailer 2 marketing	Trailer 2	Florida high points / state parks
Ambrosia	Named in Trailer 2 marketing	Trailer 2	Small inland town archetype
Grassrivers	Named in Trailer 2 marketing	Trailer 2	Everglades / Big Cypress
Leonida (state)	Named by Rockstar from reveal	Trailer 1, 0:00	Florida

Vice City: districts and corridors named on-screen

Vice City is the only location for which both trailers give us internal district names rather than just the city label. The most legible source is the overhead highway signage in Trailer 1 at 0:24 (Lucia in the red convertible), which spells out a multi-district hierarchy in a single shot.

District / sub-area	Source	What it is
Downtown	Trailer 1 highway sign, 0:24	Vice City’s high-rise core
Stockyard	Trailer 1 highway sign, 0:24	Industrial / working district
Catalan Blvd	Trailer 1 highway sign, 0:24	Named arterial road
Kelly County	Trailer 1 highway sign, 0:24	County containing Vice City suburbs
VCI Airport (Vice City International)	Trailer 1 highway sign, 0:24; sign visible in Trailer 2	The metro airport
Ocean Beach	Trailer 1, 0:32 nightlife strip; named in Trailer 2 marketing	Art Deco hotel / beach strip — South Beach analogue
Vice City Boulevard	Trailer 1, 0:32; Trailer 2, identified by community at ~11:17	Main nightlife corridor (per Jetro’s identification of the matching street geometry)
Vice Beach	Marketing copy + multiple beach shots	Wider beach district encompassing Ocean Beach

IGN’s “89 Details” video at 7:57 specifically points at signage for the Ocean View Hotel, “its neighboring Ocean Beach, and the sign outside of Vice City Airport,” all in Trailer 2. The Ocean View / Ocean Beach pairing matches the Miami Beach Art Deco district very closely, and the hotel name itself is a callback to the original 1986-set Vice City (where “Ocean View Hotel” was Tommy Vercetti’s first safehouse).

The night-time strip in Trailer 1 at 0:32 — with “Hotel Dixon” and “Boardwalk” neon, palm trees and sports cars at the kerb — is the same district viewed from street level. Trailer 2 returns to it twice: once at 1:39 with the “NINE” outdoor club marked explicitly “Vice City,” and again in the chase sequence that Jetro pegs to Vice City Boulevard at 11:17.

The freestanding “VICE” letters in Trailer 1 at 0:39 are not a district name but a hilltop landmark sign; community map-builders catalogued by Dandy Andy (around 2:25 in the “80% Accurate” video) have placed it on a ridge overlooking the bay, similar to how the Hollywood sign anchors a real-world skyline.

The Leonida Keys

The southern archipelago is the second-most-cited region across both trailers. Trailer 1’s aerial at 0:35 establishes the geometry — long causeways linking small islands across turquoise shallows — and Trailer 2 anchors a substantial chunk of its narrative there.

Jetro at 0:45 identifies “the Leonida Keys, which is a real life hot spot for drug trafficking,” and IGN at 1:38 specifies that Cal Hampton “is a longtime drug runner, smuggling product through the Leonida Keys” via his boat business with the Leonida Marine Center (the latter named on his t-shirt per IGN at 0:58). The Keys are therefore both a setting and a story device.

Keys element	Trailer	Notes
Long causeway over shallow water	T1 0:35 (aerial), T1 0:02 (sunset)	Visual analogue to U.S. Route 1 / Overseas Highway
Seaplane traffic	T1 0:35	Implies an air-tour or smuggling economy
Leonida Marine Center	T2 0:58 (t-shirt)	Named business tied to the Keys per IGN
Cal Hampton’s boat operation	T2 1:38–1:40	Story-anchored Keys content
Drug-runner subtext	T2 across multiple scenes	Real-world Keys analogue

Dandy Andy’s video at 6:03 cites a community measurement that “the distance from the Southern Keys to Northern Vice City measures approximately 14.54 km or 9.03 mi” — that figure is fan-derived from leaked map data, not from Rockstar, and we flag it as such in the open-questions section below.

Northern Leonida: Port Gellhorn, Mount Kalaga, Ambrosia, Grassrivers

Trailer 2’s marketing copy introduced four region names that Trailer 1 had not used. Dandy Andy summarises the list at 4:25 as: “Ambrosia, Watson Bay, Port Gellhorn, and Mount Kalaga.” Combined with the official Rockstar VI page copy, the confirmed northern set is:

Location	Type	What we publicly see	Source
Port Gellhorn	Port town	Industrial waterfront, working-class streets, named in marketing	Rockstar VI page; community at Dandy Andy 4:25
Mount Kalaga	Elevated / National Park area	Forest, ridge lines, hiking imagery	Rockstar VI page; community at Dandy Andy 4:25
Ambrosia	Small town	Strip-mall and roadside Americana shots in T2	Rockstar VI page; community at Dandy Andy 4:25
Grassrivers	Swamp / wetlands	Airboats, marsh interiors in T2	Rockstar VI page; T2 swamp imagery
Watson Bay	Coastal bay	Community-identified in T2	Dandy Andy 4:25
Peacock Bay	Coastal	Called out as a “new named location” by Jetro at 4:06	Jetro 4:03–4:08
Vice Dale County	County	Listed by Jetro at 14:37 among “new named locations”	Jetro 14:37
Draper Island	Island	Listed by Jetro at 14:37	Jetro 14:37
Leonida Department of Corrections	Institution (state-wide)	Lucia’s orange jumpsuit, per IGN at 3:28	IGN 3:30

Mount Kalaga and Grassrivers together do something the GTA V map already did for San Andreas — they bracket the urban core with a national-park-style highland and a wetland interior. The implication, supported by IGN at 14:32 noting “a fast travel system between the game’s major locations,” is that the map is large enough for region-to-region travel to be a meaningful design problem.

Specific named buildings, venues and signs

Beyond districts, the trailers name specific places. These are useful because they will likely become explorable interiors, mission locations, or branded businesses.

Name	Trailer / timestamp	Type	Notes
Hotel Dixon	T1 0:32	Art Deco hotel	Vice City Boulevard / Ocean Beach strip
Boardwalk (signage)	T1 0:32	District / venue marker	Same strip
Ocean View Hotel	T2 (IGN 7:57)	Hotel	Callback to Vice City (2002)
Vice City Airport / VCI	T1 0:24; T2 (IGN 7:59)	Airport	Named in two trailers
NINE	T2 1:39	Outdoor nightclub	”Vice City” sub-label on signboard
Leonida Marine Center	T2 0:58 (IGN)	Marina / business	Cal Hampton t-shirt
Leonida Department of Corrections	T2 3:28–3:30 (IGN)	State institution	Lucia’s jumpsuit
VICE letter sign	T1 0:39	Landmark	Hilltop installation
BTN DELMAR (container ship)	T1 0:23	Vessel + port	Working-port signage

Cross-trailer comparison: same place, two looks

Several locations appear in both trailers, which is useful for confirming geography rather than just isolated set pieces.

Location	Trailer 1 appearance	Trailer 2 appearance	What the comparison tells us
Vice City skyline	0:21 beach, 0:32 strip, 0:37 rooftop pool	1:39 nightclub, 2:20 jet ski with skyline	Same skyline silhouette from beach, rooftop and bay angles
Leonida Keys	0:35 aerial causeway	1:38–1:40 Cal Hampton boat scenes	Establishing shot in T1, story role in T2
Vice City Boulevard / Ocean Beach	0:32 night strip	T2 chase identified by Jetro at 11:17	Same neon corridor revisited
Causeway over water	0:02 sunset aerial, 0:35 daytime aerial	2:20 bay shot reuses same waterway	Reinforces single-state geography
VCI Airport	0:24 highway sign	Sign visible per IGN 7:59	Named twice, confirming a real interior likely exists

Real-world analogues, region by region

Dandy Andy at 3:17 summarises the community workflow: “use Google Earth data to match Grand Theft Auto 6 locations with their real Florida counterparts.” The mapping below is editorial — drawn from visible terrain features, not Rockstar statements — and is presented as “appears to correspond to,” not “is.”

GTA 6 region	Most likely real-world basis	Visual cues used
Vice City	Miami (esp. Miami Beach, Downtown, Brickell, MIA airport)	Art Deco strip, port cranes, causeway geometry, skyline density
Ocean Beach	South Beach / Ocean Drive	Pastel Art Deco frontage in T1 0:32
Leonida Keys	Florida Keys / Overseas Highway	Causeway shape in T1 0:35
Port Gellhorn	Florida Panhandle port towns (Pensacola, Panama City)	Marketing imagery, name structure
Mount Kalaga	Florida state parks / Torreya / Britton Hill area	”Mount” naming is itself a Florida joke
Grassrivers	Everglades / Big Cypress	Sawgrass, airboats in T2
Ambrosia	Generic central-Florida small town	Strip-mall framing
Kelly County	Suburban county outside Miami (Broward / Miami-Dade analogue)	Named on T1 highway sign

Still unverified / open questions

The list of named places is now broad, but several geographical questions are still not answered by publicly released material.

• Exact map size. The 14.54 km Keys-to-north figure quoted by Dandy Andy at 6:03 is fan-derived from leak data, not from Rockstar. Treat it as an upper-bound community estimate, not a published spec.
• Which northern names are towns vs. counties vs. regions. Rockstar’s copy lists names without consistently labelling administrative type. Whether Ambrosia is a town inside a county, or a region, is not stated.
• Interior playability. Named buildings (Ocean View Hotel, Leonida Marine Center, NINE nightclub) appear in trailers, but trailers do not confirm whether their interiors are explorable.
• Fast travel mechanics. IGN at 14:32 notes that some scenes hint at “a fast travel system between the game’s major locations,” but Rockstar has not confirmed how fast travel works or whether it is gated.
• Whether Georgia is in-bounds. Jetro at 4:03 says “Georgia has also been added to the game.” This is community inference from a sign, not a Rockstar statement, and the in-game state border has not been confirmed.
• Mount Kalaga playable elevation range. The community treats it as a national-park-style area, but elevation, snowline, and whether it supports off-road gameplay are not yet shown.
• Draper Island, Vice Dale County, Peacock Bay, Watson Bay. These names come from on-screen signage spotted by creators but have not (yet) been individually highlighted by Rockstar’s own marketing.
• Where Jason and Lucia’s safehouse sits. Jetro at 12:08 identifies a candidate location, but the trailers do not name the district.

Related reading

• Trailer 1 overview — the original Vice City reveal in context
• Trailer 2 overview — Leonida tour and expanded cast
• Vice City entity page
• Leonida Keys entity page
• Mount Kalaga entity page
• Port Gellhorn entity page
• Ambrosia entity page
• Grassrivers entity page

This page will be updated whenever Rockstar adds new official material or community map-builders converge on new confirmed location names. The last revision date in the frontmatter reflects the most recent pass.